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    CodeMage: educational programming environment for beginners
    (IEEE, 2017-02-01) Whittall, S. J; Prashandi, W. A. C; Himasha, G. L. S; De Silva, D. I; Suriyawansa, T. K
    CodeMage is an interactive educational programming environment targeted at novice Java programmers who have little knowledge in basic programming. The system comes with innovative features such as, real-time guidance and reviews, code generation tool, visual debugger, hinting system for best practices, remote tutor and database manipulation tool which makes it a unique educational programming environment. Though many of programming tools are available in the market, they have their drawbacks in suitability to be adopted in programming by beginners due to the complexity in software interface, cryptic error messages and warning messages, no adequate support to fix errors and not adhering to real-world programming context etc. CodeMage is an attempt to overcome above problems and change how novices perceive and practice Java programming around the world and it is working as expected.
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    iShop—Shopping application for visually challenged
    (IEEE, 2017-02-01) De Silva, D. I; Nashry, M. R. A; Varathalingam, V; Murugathas, R; Suriyawansa, T. K
    In the life of visually challenged people shopping is one of the greatest challenges. From getting around the supermarket to paying the bill at the cashier they need to rely on someone else. They never get a chance to shop on their own. Whether the person uses a cane, a seeing-eye dog or other sight tools, shopping is still a painstaking chore for them. This paper presents iShop - a complete mobile solution for the above mentioned problem of visually challenged people. iShop is developed in order to address the issues that the visually challenged people face while they do shopping and to provide a new, convenient shopping experience using modern technology.